If a locking head needs to attach to a patient line now, i'm sure that comparing colors could add unneeded time to compare and contrast a color scheme.
If by locking head you just mean something to cap the tube, I doubt that would matter so much. Besides, you could just put your thumb over the top until you find the right colour - seriously, how long does it take your brain to match 2 colours together? I bet I could find an object of matching colour much faster than I could find an object of matching shape or size.
Funny you should ask. In the apollo program astronauts in the lunar module had a horrible mess of hoses and fittings to deal with. The rule they all memorised was red to red, blue to blue and you can see that repeated many times in the ALSJ. Its how they matched fittings to hoses.
In the case of medicine I would suggest they stick to primary colors for a set of basic properties (liquid, gas, etc) and back the code up with a pattern (say: red gets a straight white stripe; blue gets a zig zag red stripe, and so on) for lighting conditions where colours are hard to make out.
They could back that up by using different hose material for different functions. Just enough to give the hose a unique feel.
I'm actually a little shocked to hear that this problem hasn't already been fixed
It doesn't surprise me. Medicine hasn't taken on process definition the way most other industries have. I doubt most medical environments would qualify for ISO9001, let alone anything more prescriptive.
Case in point, when my wife was in hospital after giving birth to our son she sat up to breastfeed and started to slip off the chair she was in. Because she was recovering from a C-section she was unable to lift herself up so she pressed the call button for a nurse. Nobody came. Different nurses no doubt walked past the room and assumed that responding was Somebody Elses Problem. My wife eventually called the hospital from an outside line, got reception and they sent somebody up to help her.
One of the QA managers where I work had a similar experience when we was in hospital.
I think the reason is that doctors and nurses think they know everything which they need to know and no outsiders are going to tell them anything different.
If they wanted to do an operation at a particular location you would think they wouldn't transmit the lat/lon in the plain at 4000KHz. Maybe the actual location is 180 degrees away from that, or one tenth of that, or combined with the one time pad for the time of transmission.
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OS/2 didn't get "very few users". It was a very mainstream operating system at its peak.
Indeed I remember seeing many job ads for OS2 programmers, and many corporations having adopted it. Small businesses and home users however mostly used the cheaper clones and dos/windows.
I worked for a large organisation with a several thousand OS/2 workstations deployed, though I wasn't in a position where I had to use it. From the perspective of the users it lost out for fairly trivial reasons. It had the habit of stacking icons in folders so that the user had to manually move icons around to find the application they needed. It took forever to start up, though that probably had more to do with IT overloading the hardware, both on the client and in their infrastructure.
They had an IBM centric system. Even the public facing web server was part of Lotus Notes. The whole stack worked but it had a subtle stink and it got dropped eventually.
An American embargo doesn't matter either, because nothing was sold by an American company
I work for a European company and we would definitely get into a lot of trouble with the US DOD if we violated US export restrictions. We have to stay in business, which means dealing with the US.
... they came across something even more surprising: long-term observation of the decay rate of silicon-32 and radium-226 seemed to show a small seasonal variation.
Chances are it's just seasonal effects on the testing equipment, with varying temperatures and humidity levels.
Maybe the cleaning lady dusts the lab more in with winter because there is less gardening to do, so there is less background radiation, and the instruments are calibrated once a month on a test target plus background.
Its a bit like correlating car crashes with the movement of galaxies. Atoms are tough little beasts and not really affected by anything other than other particles.
was Windows CE ever, at any point, a commercial success? If so, I blinked and missed it, but I do freely admit I don't know a lot of the history there.
I have a presumably Chinese made $99 GPS in my wife's car. They must be selling millions of the things. It runs Windows CE.
Say you burn all your fuel to get into orbit. Thats a velocity change of about 8 km/s. To get down under power you would need to change your speed by 8 km/s again, but all the fuel you need for that would have to be carried up in the first place.
A good launch vehicle has a mass ratio of 1/10, meaning that roughly 90% of the launch mass is going to be fuel. If your fuel mass for landing is the same as the the fuel mass just to get the empty vehicle into orbit, the total mass of the vehicle at launch will increase by a factor of 10.
Its just impractical. To land on any large planet you need to use aerobraking.
Why? Entry vehicles have been invented many times for many purposes. A vehicle was built to enter Jupiter at 50 km/s. As early as the 1950s simple entry vehicles were used to return film from spy satellites.
Sure but the bit about hypersonic flight is relatively easy if you are going to follow a ballistic trajectory in a capsule. No where near as hard as in something with wings.
Orbital is much more dangerous. Re-entry at hypersonic speeds is not an easy problem to solve.
I don't agree. Rocks do it all the time but admittedly pull a lot of gees. Build a carbon fibre sphere, coat it with an ablative heat shield. Tell the occupants to slide around inside so the heat is shared across the surface. Build a couple of doors with explosive devices which can open them even if the heat shield has melted them closed. Punch out at five km altitude and land with conventional parachutes.
If you want to get complex build a double cone: shallow cone with head shield on the bottom. Steep cone on the top. You need a reaction control system to point the blunt side forwards during aerobraking.
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If a locking head needs to attach to a patient line now, i'm sure that comparing colors could add unneeded time to compare and contrast a color scheme.
If by locking head you just mean something to cap the tube, I doubt that would matter so much. Besides, you could just put your thumb over the top until you find the right colour - seriously, how long does it take your brain to match 2 colours together? I bet I could find an object of matching colour much faster than I could find an object of matching shape or size.
Funny you should ask. In the apollo program astronauts in the lunar module had a horrible mess of hoses and fittings to deal with. The rule they all memorised was red to red, blue to blue and you can see that repeated many times in the ALSJ. Its how they matched fittings to hoses.
In the case of medicine I would suggest they stick to primary colors for a set of basic properties (liquid, gas, etc) and back the code up with a pattern (say: red gets a straight white stripe; blue gets a zig zag red stripe, and so on) for lighting conditions where colours are hard to make out.
They could back that up by using different hose material for different functions. Just enough to give the hose a unique feel.
I'm actually a little shocked to hear that this problem hasn't already been fixed
It doesn't surprise me. Medicine hasn't taken on process definition the way most other industries have. I doubt most medical environments would qualify for ISO9001, let alone anything more prescriptive.
Case in point, when my wife was in hospital after giving birth to our son she sat up to breastfeed and started to slip off the chair she was in. Because she was recovering from a C-section she was unable to lift herself up so she pressed the call button for a nurse. Nobody came. Different nurses no doubt walked past the room and assumed that responding was Somebody Elses Problem. My wife eventually called the hospital from an outside line, got reception and they sent somebody up to help her.
One of the QA managers where I work had a similar experience when we was in hospital.
I think the reason is that doctors and nurses think they know everything which they need to know and no outsiders are going to tell them anything different.
If you swap Up and across, you get the Barents Sea, Greenland, and 2 spots in Antartica - 1 land, one sea.
Naimina is a girls name in Kenya.
Barack Obama's secret love child?
And here's me thinking that Naimina is Julian Assange's latest confirmed girlfriend.
The clear picture is odd: can't distinguish ANY antenna shadows from all the building shadows.
Maybe the lighting is too diffuse for fine shadows to be obvious. Vegetation under the antenna could make shadows hard to see as well.
How much does a shortwave transmitter cost?? I want to rickroll this frequency!
The gear would be available surplus for not much. Otherwise you could roll your own with transistors, capacitors, so forth.
If they wanted to do an operation at a particular location you would think they wouldn't transmit the lat/lon in the plain at 4000KHz. Maybe the actual location is 180 degrees away from that, or one tenth of that, or combined with the one time pad for the time of transmission.
OS/2 didn't get "very few users". It was a very mainstream operating system at its peak.
Indeed I remember seeing many job ads for OS2 programmers, and many corporations having adopted it. Small businesses and home users however mostly used the cheaper clones and dos/windows.
I worked for a large organisation with a several thousand OS/2 workstations deployed, though I wasn't in a position where I had to use it. From the perspective of the users it lost out for fairly trivial reasons. It had the habit of stacking icons in folders so that the user had to manually move icons around to find the application they needed. It took forever to start up, though that probably had more to do with IT overloading the hardware, both on the client and in their infrastructure.
They had an IBM centric system. Even the public facing web server was part of Lotus Notes. The whole stack worked but it had a subtle stink and it got dropped eventually.
An American embargo doesn't matter either, because nothing was sold by an American company
I work for a European company and we would definitely get into a lot of trouble with the US DOD if we violated US export restrictions. We have to stay in business, which means dealing with the US.
Other particles are sufficiently high energy to change the internal workings of atoms.
... they came across something even more surprising: long-term observation of the decay rate of silicon-32 and radium-226 seemed to show a small seasonal variation.
Chances are it's just seasonal effects on the testing equipment, with varying temperatures and humidity levels.
Maybe the cleaning lady dusts the lab more in with winter because there is less gardening to do, so there is less background radiation, and the instruments are calibrated once a month on a test target plus background.
Or neutrino flux changes the way decay rates are measured.
Its a bit like correlating car crashes with the movement of galaxies. Atoms are tough little beasts and not really affected by anything other than other particles.
Lets hope nobody identifies Plutonium-186
was Windows CE ever, at any point, a commercial success? If so, I blinked and missed it, but I do freely admit I don't know a lot of the history there.
I have a presumably Chinese made $99 GPS in my wife's car. They must be selling millions of the things. It runs Windows CE.
Say you burn all your fuel to get into orbit. Thats a velocity change of about 8 km/s. To get down under power you would need to change your speed by 8 km/s again, but all the fuel you need for that would have to be carried up in the first place.
A good launch vehicle has a mass ratio of 1/10, meaning that roughly 90% of the launch mass is going to be fuel. If your fuel mass for landing is the same as the the fuel mass just to get the empty vehicle into orbit, the total mass of the vehicle at launch will increase by a factor of 10.
Its just impractical. To land on any large planet you need to use aerobraking.
Not sure what reference that is.
Why? Entry vehicles have been invented many times for many purposes. A vehicle was built to enter Jupiter at 50 km/s. As early as the 1950s simple entry vehicles were used to return film from spy satellites.
Sure but the bit about hypersonic flight is relatively easy if you are going to follow a ballistic trajectory in a capsule. No where near as hard as in something with wings.
I think I'd want to be wearing my bike helmet at least. And a G suit.
Just noted this:
If they want to put a man into space, how can they avoid biological payloads?
Maybe he's going to be sterilised first.
But not much less dangerous
Orbital is much more dangerous. Re-entry at hypersonic speeds is not an easy problem to solve.
I don't agree. Rocks do it all the time but admittedly pull a lot of gees. Build a carbon fibre sphere, coat it with an ablative heat shield. Tell the occupants to slide around inside so the heat is shared across the surface. Build a couple of doors with explosive devices which can open them even if the heat shield has melted them closed. Punch out at five km altitude and land with conventional parachutes.
If you want to get complex build a double cone: shallow cone with head shield on the bottom. Steep cone on the top. You need a reaction control system to point the blunt side forwards during aerobraking.
Its taken this long for NASA to perfect it.
Didn't you listen to Yeager? Its always SPAM in a can.
A UAV bomber can be used against enemy aircraft carriers, for example.
No, its too slow to evade surface to air missiles.